Five Ingredient Fish Pie (Iceland)

Fish pie that’s easy to assemble with just five ingredients. This family favourite recipe will leave you hands free to help with the homework. Recipe post commissoned by Iceland as part of their #PowerofFrozen campaign.

Fish pie is one of our favourite comfort foods. I’m especially excited to discover a tasty version I can knock up in minutes and leave to cook in oven. No faffing about cooking potatoes separately, no complicated sauces.

Families love heart meals in the week but with so much else to do, I’d not normally consider a homemade fish pie from scratch as an easy option.

Until now.

Iceland is somewhere I’ve only shopped intermittently purely because the branch isn’t as easy to drive to or park near as local alternatives. But since refreshing my knowledge of their hero products, I think I’m going to have to invest in a bigger freezer.

I love frozen food and my freezer is the backbone of my store cupboard ingredients not to mention meals cooked in advance.

My biggest surprises in store were frozen sushi – simply defrost for two hours then eat.

And these bread and pastry products; mini Danish pastry selection and a loaf of bread in a box to bake freshly from frozen. For my husband I bought a six pack of custard slices which I’m delighted to store in the freezer as the fresh ones have such short dates on them and now he can get one out twenty minutes before he fancies one!

Are you a regular shopper in Iceland? I was genuinely surprised by the breadth of items you could buy frozen not to mention the large selection of non frozen items sold alongside at low prices. I tend to think of Iceland as being aisles of freezers only but actually you can stock up on fresh vegetables, chilled products, store cupboard essentials and cleaning bits and bobs all in the same shop. Oh and did I say they currently offer FREE delivery when you spend just £35?

Five minute fish pie family food hack

Here’s how I bashed out our fish pie in barely more than minutes and put my feet up for an hour whilst it baked. Printable recipe below too.

Pour over 500ml of instant parsley sauce (Iceland sell a Colman’s version or you could use the Bisto granules kind).

Arrange frozen potato slices on top and bake for twenty minutes at gas mark 6 / 200c. Then remove from oven and cover with foil to prevent burning. Bake for a further 40 minutes then remove from oven one last time, scatter over grated cheese and pop back in to brown without the foil cover.

After another 15-20 minutes, you should have something like this. Ta-dah!

An easy fish pie recipe assembled from five ingredients in barely five minutes prep then bake in oven for just over an hour whilst you help the kids with the homework.

Author: Sarah Trivuncic

Recipe type: Family Food

Cuisine: British

Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

1 x 600g pack Iceland's Arctic Royal luxury frozen fish pie mix

340g (half pack) Iceland cauliflower and broccoli cheese florets

325g (half pack) Iceland crispy potato slices

500ml instant parsley sauce*

75g grated cheese

Instructions

Preheat the oven to gas mark 6 / 200c.

Arrange the frozen fish pie mix into a large baking dish.

Arrange the frozen cauliflower and broccoli cheese florets on top.

Pour over the instant parsley sauce*

Arrange over the crispy potato slices spreading them out evenly.

Bake for 20 minutes then take out of the oven to loosely cover the top surface with a sheet of foil, return to the oven for a futher 40 minutes.

After 40 minutes, remove the foil and scatter over the cheese. Return to the oven to brown off for around 15 minutes.

Notes

*If you are not a fan of instant sauce mixes you can make your own white sauce. My preferred method to make a white sauce would be to use a power blender on soup program (five minutes) to mix 50g butter, 500ml milk and 2 tbsp cornflour. After five minutes blend programme when the sauce is hot, add a little parsley and seasoning into the mix and blend again for a few seconds.

Love this fish pie Sarah. I was in Iceland again today as I had an appointment nearby! I bought the box of bread which was half price today and even had the broccoli and cauliflower cheese in my hand but knew I was pushed for freezer space so stuck with some other bits. I also bought their gelato which I’ve heard so much about so am looking forward to trying that too! Thanks for including my Seabass & Colcannon recipe:-)

Wow how unbelievable simple is that! I’m like you in that I always associate fish pie with a bit more time and effort than I really have time for so it does’t get made all that often in my house. I’ll definitely be rethinking that view in future.

Thanks so much for joining #FoodYearLinkup I hope to see you there agin in future xx

Such a quick and easy version of fish pie! I particularly like the idea of using sliced potato on top – so much easier than mash! Now, why didn’t I think of that? I do love meals that can be put together in a few minutes and then popped in the oven. I currently have a chilli in the oven doing its stuff while I work / keep an eye on the kids. Feels so nice to know dinner is already sorted 🙂 Eb x

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